​Russia launched a new wave of airstrikes on Kyiv early Monday, using drones and cruise missiles, with the Ukrainian capital’s military administration saying its forces had shot down more than 40 targets and that there were no casualties. or victims. It was the 15th airstrike in the city since May and was similar in scale to the one that took place overnight from Saturday to Sunday.

Highlights of the war in Ukraine, day 460, LIVETEXT:

07:26 Foreign investors who left Russia after selling their businesses in the country between March 2022 and March 2023 took about $36 billion out of Russia, the state news agency RIA reported on Monday, citing an analysis of Central Bank data.

Dozens of the world’s largest companies have left or reduced operations in Russia since the beginning of the invasion. Last week, the central bank played down the impact of foreign exits, saying that around 200 sales deals had been completed between March 2022 and March 2023, with only 20% of them involving the sale of large assets, i.e. more than US$100 million (Reuters )

A brief summary of recent events:

• Russia reacted sharply to the statements of US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who in a conversation with Zelensky said that the military aid offered to Ukraine was the best way the US was spending money and that “Russians are dying.”
• British long-range Storm Shadow missiles, recently delivered to Ukraine, work flawlessly on the battlefield, noted Oleksiy Reznikov.
• About 80 Russian soldiers fled to the occupied Lysytsyansk district of Luhansk region, and about 30 mercenaries of the “Wagner” PMC fled to the Bakhmut district.
• Boris Nadeytin, a former liberal lawmaker, said on Gazprom-owned NTV that President Vladimir Putin should be replaced in the next election.
• Oleksandr Lukashenko said that Russia will give nuclear weapons to any state that joins the state union of Russia and Belarus.
• Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the West wants to “dismember” Russia and that the delivery of F-16 fighter jets will escalate the conflict.
• Mercenary leader Wagner said on Sunday that he was convinced that top Kremlin officials had banned reports about him from state media.
• Belarusian opponent Valery Tsepkalo, a former ambassador to the United States, claims that Minsk leader Oleksandr Lukashenko was hospitalized in Moscow immediately after meeting with Vladimir Putin.
• Political scientist Ioan Stanomir claims that Vladimir Putin has many sympathizers both in the West and in Romania, who are recruited “from both the extreme left and the extreme right.”
• A man died in Kyiv after a “massive” attack by Russian drones due to the fall of fragments of these devices on the capital, the mayor of the capital of Ukraine Vitaliy Klitschko announced on Sunday morning.
• Zelensky proposed a bill that would impose sanctions on Iran for 50 years for its role in supplying Russia with weapons, including hundreds of drones.
• According to a representative of the Ukrainian army, Russian attacks near the eastern city of Bakhmut, the scene of fierce fighting in recent months, weakened somewhat over the weekend.
• EU foreign affairs and security policy spokeswoman Nabila Massrali said Russia “will be held accountable” for attacks on civilian areas.[Liderii [ruși] and the guilty will be brought to justice. We remain committed to helping Ukraine defend itself,” she wrote on Twitter.
• Russia said its air defense systems shot down several drones on Sunday as they approached the Ilya oil refinery in the Krasnodar region near the Black Sea. “Several unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) tried to approach the territory of the Ilya oil refinery in the Krasnodar Territory. All of them were neutralized, the infrastructure of the plant was not damaged,” the region reported.
• South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has set up a panel of experts to investigate US allegations that a Russian ship took weapons from a naval base near Cape Town last year.

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• Sunday’s events related to Russian aggression were broadcast LIVE on HotNews.ro